Vocabulary Hubble Trouble, or Tesla? Invention Intention - Reading Comprehension Tone and Diction: True or False, Matching Diction with Tone Dashes and Ellipses - Tell which punctuation mark is being used accurately
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What is an outcry?
“A person or the public’s strong disapproval and anger toward something”
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What is Hubble?
“…on April 25, 1990, it had been almost cancelled at least twice and then delayed following the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.”
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What is a telescope, Hubble Telescope?
In 1946, Lyman Sptizer Jr had a dream that THIS would float in space above the atmosphere, and we’d be able to see all the stars in space.
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What is diction?
Word choice
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What is a dash?
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What is dismay?
“An emotion of anxiety, disapproval and disappointment”
200
What is Hubble?
The agency’s administrator, Sean O’Keefe, cancelled what was to be the final mission on the ground that it was too risky.
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What is a mirror, misshapen mirror, or focus?
It was a mistake on THIS that led to blurry pictures from the Hubble, and to the dismay of NASA engineers.
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What is tone?
Author's opinion or attitude
200
What is an ellipsis?
...
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What is controversy?
“A dispute from people with opposing views”
300
What is Tesla?
“This rivalry was referred to as the “War of the Currents.”
300
What is astronauts, “Hubble Repairman,” Hubble Astronauts?
Even though in 1999 four of six gyroscopes (that keep the telescope pointed) failed, THESE PEOPLE worked to successfully replace them.
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What is true?
c. True/False: The author maintains a wondrous tone in the following passage: “In perhaps its most iconic image, called “Pillars of Creation,” the Hubble recorded baby stars burning their way out of biblical-looking mountains of gas and dust in a stellar nursery known as the Eagle nebula.”
300
What is an ellipsis?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly? I wonder… is there life—in other solar systems?
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What is dismay?
It didn’t look like Hubble was going to be able to launch into space, to the public’s ___________.
400
What is Hubble?
Behind the scenes… engineers were working on ways to save… by sending robots to work on it, perhaps.
400
What is 44 years?
From dream in 1946 to launch in 1990, it took the Hubble Telescope THIS MANY YEARS before it was launched into space.
400
What is an optimistic, hopeful, promising, proud tone?
The author's tone is...________???
“When Hubble was finally deployed, NASA’s spinmasters were instantly at the top of their game, hailing it as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.”
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What is a dash?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly?
Wow—that’s awesome…
500
What is outcry?
Edison sparked a(n) _____________ from Tesla when he decided not to pay Nikola for the work he had done; therefore, Tesla left.
500
What is Hubble?
“…that big mirror would up misshapen, polished four-millionths of an inch too flat…”
500
What is a dash?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly?
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